The nobility and gentry and commons of England furnished forty-three ships; the merchant adventurers, ten; to which may be added a fly-boat and Sir W.
In 1591 the first voyage to the East Indies was undertaken by Captain Lancaster, in three ships.
His squadron consisted of three ships, named the San Gabriel, the San Raphael, and the Birrio, together with a transport to carry stores.
The whole impression of the British fleet must be, to overpower from two or three ships a-head of their commander in chief, supposed to be their centre, to the rear of their fleet.
Among other contrivances to put them in motion, was that of sending two or three ships of the line, with a single frigate, off the harbour, while the main body of the fleet remained at a considerable distance out of sight.
There the Spaniards managed to load some of the treasure upon two or three ships lying in the roadstead; and the nuns and most of the citizens of importance also embarked with their wives, children and personal property.
In which Israel is sailor under two flags, and in three ships, and all in one night XV.
In 1594, Captain James Lancaster set sail with three ships upon a voyage of adventure.
Volunteers were asked for, and the whole of the sailors and marines from the three shipsoffered to follow Lord Cochrane wherever he might lead them.
There were twenty-three ships in the harbour at Callao, nineteen of these were sunk and the other four carried half a mile inland.
Roggewein was made admiral, and two hundred and seventy-one men were embarked upon the three ships.
There shall be three ships, in order that one may remain at the port of Acapulco for repairs.
There shall be three ships, in order that one may remain in dry dock at the port of Acapulco.
There should be three ships, all alike and of the same model, each containing four hundred short toneladas of the Northern Sea, which amount to three hundred.
Then went the Danes from theirthree ships to those other three that were on their side, be-ebbed; and there they then fought.
There are altogether thirty-three ships; but two of them, the Utrecht and the Gelykheid, were used as temporary receiving ships for newly raised men.
He took but two or three ships, and these have been, after two hundred years, proved to be lawful prizes taken in his legal capacity as a privateer.
In 1642 he gathered together a crew of more than a thousand buccaneers in the Islands of St. Kitts and Barbadoes, and sailed with these in three ships to the Spanish Main, plundering Maracaibo and Truxillo.
Three ships out of the fleet slipped away on the voyage, but the rest arrived at St. Kitts, landed, and took the fort.
The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower from two to three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief, supposed to be in the centre, to the rear of their fleet.
In this year he only commanded, as has been said, a little squadron of three ships, and played a part inferior to that played by his cousin Francisco de Albuquerque, the son of John II's Lord High Admiral.
He therefore left Cochin with twenty-three ships on Feb.
Of equal importance was Albuquerque's despatch of three ships, under the command of Antonio de Abreu, to explore the Moluccas and the Spice Islands.
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